#shortcomings

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#being #capacity #exactly #human #human being

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ↗

— John Knowles

#shortcomings #friendship

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#discerning #high #high quality #identifying #implies

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#been #feel #had #i #i feel

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. ↗

— Keith Miller

#constant fear #exposed #family #fear #friends

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#borders #leaders #our #political #political leaders

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own